This is the stuff of science fiction turned fact, no doubt about it: The world’s smallest and lightest insect-like aerial vehicle had a successful test and realized brief but sustained, solo, ...

Abstract: We present a novel paradigm and algorithm for optimal design of underactuated robot platforms in highly-constrained nonconvex parameter spaces. We apply this algorithm to two variants of the ...

Microrobots inspired by flying insects don’t always stick the landing—until now. Inspired by real bees, RoboBee is a microrobot designed by researchers at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of ...

More robust mini-drones are sought-after goods around the world for combat missions, but the technology is complex. The dream of every intelligence agency looks like a large mosquito, has two tiny ...

A military research institute in China has unveiled a spy drone that is the same size and shape as a mosquito. The tiny unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) features hair-thin legs and two wings, which can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China’s National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) has developed a mosquito-sized drone designed for covert military ...

I feel like the Drone Port is quite cheap for how powerful it is. Maybe require the port to be stocked with up to 3 craftable drones to balance it a bit? They don't have to be very expensive or ...

A recently created RoboBee is now outfitted with its most reliable landing gear to date, inspired by one of nature's most graceful landers: the crane fly. The team has given their flying robot a set ...

Harvard’s tiny flying robot, known as the RoboBee, has just gotten a major upgrade that makes landing much safer and smoother. Inspired by the long legs of crane flies, engineers have given the robot ...